Redeemer Church Leans on Ashly
Twenty years after its founding by a handful of dedicated families, Redeemer Church celebrated the completion of a brand new 16,000-plus square-foot sanctuary, fellowship hall, and classroom complex in its …
Roland’s M-5000 Live Mixing Console Finds Early Adopter in Lincoln, Nebraska-Based Multimedia Firm Inspirmedia Productions
Longtime Roland Professional A/V user Inspirmedia makes the move to higher channel count and unprecedented interoperability with the M-5000, recently brought to market. Established around 15 years ago as an …
Ohio’s Faith Family Church Selects FOR-A Video Switcher as Part of HD Transition
When North Canton, O.H.-based Faith Family Church was recently searching for a switcher to accommodate the HD transition for its 3,800-seat facility, the house of worship found exactly what it was looking for in FOR-A’s 2 M/E HVS-390HS video switcher. Faith Family Church staff first laid their eyes on the unit at last year’s NAB Show, and immediately knew it was an ideal fit.
“We do our best to spend our money as wisely as we possibly can, and FOR-A’s HVS-390HS cost effectiveness blew every other switcher out of the water,” said Kyle Whittaker, Faith Family Church HVS-390HS SwitcherProduction Director at Faith Family Church. “The switcher has all the features we wanted. A 2 M/E unit was crucial to us for our productions, and its ease of use was a big selling point. Since volunteers operate our switcher, it needed to be very intuitive to use.”
Faith Family Church has a team of 70 volunteers, five of which work directly with the switcher and operate the board during productions. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, the volunteers easily learned how to operate the switcher. The house of worship also relies on its full-time creative team to produce great content, including in-house graphics and video production staff.
MalibuPres Church Debuts New Sanctuary With EAW QX Loudspeakers
Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) QX Series loudspeakers and SB Series subwoofers were recently deployed as the primary components in the main sound system serving the new sanctuary of Malibu Presbyterian Church in Malibu, CA.
The system was designed and installed by Audio Techniques of North Hollywood, CA, which enjoys a long affiliation with the church. Called “MalibuPres” for short, the church presents services offering both contemporary and traditional elements. The new building was more than five years in the making, necessary after a wildfire burned down the previous facility.
Following that loss, the church initially moved to an area school to host its services, and then erected a 250-seat temporary structure to serve as the sanctuary until a new building could be established. Audio Techniques outfitted that facility with a quality sound reinforcement system headed by six flown EAW KF300 full-range loudspeakers and two SB1000 dual-18-inch subwoofers at stage left and right.
The new sanctuary, with a capacity of about 300, offers a main floor backed by a gently curved two-row balcony. It’s a beautiful space, made primarily of glass and steel with large windows to each side of the platform providing a view of the Pacific Ocean. The attractive aesthetics would seem to make for a challenging acoustic situation, but that’s not the case, according to Bob Ludwig of Audio Techniques.
Bose® RoomMatch® Loudspeakers Chosen for Spring Meadows Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Sanford, Florida
The new sanctuary at the Spring Meadows Seventh-day Adventist Church in Sanford, Florida, came with the sonic challenge of keeping the reflective surfaces in the fan-shaped 1,000-seat hall, with its hardwood panels and stone walls, from overwhelming the intelligibility of the message from the 72-foot-wide raised platform at the church’s front. The solution was a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose® Professional, in conjunction with some adroit application of acoustical treatments.
Sound Stage, Inc., an AV systems integrator in nearby Winter Park, designed and installed the space, placing two left-right arrays consisting of two RM12020 modules, an RM9020 module and an RM9050 module each, plus two stacked pairs of RMS215 subwoofers, along with 1.5-inch fiberglass acoustical absorptive panels on the rear and side walls of the sanctuary. The room’s front-of-house mixing position created another challenge, as it is located on the second floor and outside the main audio coverage area. To address that, Sound Stage used a Bose RMU208 small-format utility loudspeaker calibrated to the main sound system’s levels in the sanctuary’s first-floor seating area. The system is powered by a Bose PowerMatch® PM8500N networked amplifier and controlled using Bose ControlSpace® DSP.
CHAUVET Professional Next NXT-1 Panels Rouse Youthful Zeal At 2015 Awakening Conference
Awakening young people to the power of worship and engaging their zeal and passion to fuel an active and exciting church are the goals of the Awakening Conference, a three-day event held on two successive weekends at the New Life Worship Center. Indeed, everything about this New England conference proclaims “Youth!”– from the tender age of its founder Jordan Boyce (who was 16 when he started Awakening in 2007), to appearances by nationally-known celebrity pastors such as Rich Wilkerson Jr. (who served as clergy at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding), to the event’s free-spirited, electrifying rock festival-like energy.In fact, it is the Awakening Conference’s resemblance to a major rock tour, complete with super-charged lighting and visual effects, that has made it so successful in getting its message out to young people, says Robert Santilli, Technical Director of New Life Worship Center and the Awakening Conference. At this year’s event, Santilli relied heavily on CHAUVET Professional’s Next NXT-1 moving head LED panel to transform the New Life stage and auditorium into a full-scale concert production with brilliant colorful lighting, high-energy video and eye-popping special effects.
Discussing why he believes lighting is so important to the Awakening Conference, Santilli explains, “We want the youth who attend to be in a fun, exciting, free atmosphere where they can jump and dance. One of the tools we use to accomplish this is lighting. With lighting we create a high-energy, exciting experience for the young people to open up and be free in their worship.”
It’s All Danley for Calvary Chapel Melbourne
As it heads into its third decade, Calvary Chapel Melbourne (CCM) has grown from a handful of believers assembled in a hotel conference room to a mega-church that serves over 10,000 members with three campuses spread across east-central Florida. In addition to its main campus in West Melbourne, CCM operates an 1,100-seat location in Sebastian River High School’s auditorium and a 1,099-seat, purpose-built sanctuary in Viera, Florida. Beginning with the commons area at its main campus, CCM has been turning to natural-sounding, well-controlled Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers and, in many cases, powerful Danley amplifiers and DSP to convey the full high-energy dynamics of its services.
“I’ve been impressed with Danley’s philosophy and products for some time now,” said CCM Associate Audio Engineer David Hoover. “I got into pro audio via the hi-fi world of home stereos and car audio systems, and for so long I wondered why no one could deliver that kind of quality in a large-scale commercial sound system. Then Danley came along and totally changed the playing field. Danley’s unique designs give my mixes depth, dynamics, and effortless output that conventional designs, including line arrays, can’t touch. CCM Senior Audio Engineer Caleb Luper has described our new Danley systems as having a wall removed between the source instrument and the listeners. Music and spoken word sound real and full of life, and Danley’s even-response across the coverage pattern makes every seat include an incredible experience.”
St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center Builds with Fulcrum Acoustic
Located across street from the Minnesota State University campus in Mankato, the St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center has served students’ spiritual and social needs since 1921. Recently, the Center …
New Life Church Gahanna Selects WorxAudio
Located northeast of Columbus, Ohio, New Life Church Gahanna (www.enewlife.com) was formed in 1985 and quickly grew from its humble start in Gahanna West Middle School’s music room. Today, the …
Saddleback Church Chooses UsedLighting.com
As one of the ten largest churches in America, Saddleback Church produces six services every weekend in a Worship Center seating over 3,000. In addition, the megachurch broadcasts live all of their services online around the globe, fulfilling the motto ‘one family, many locations’.
With this large of an audience seeing their message every week, the production team at Saddleback, including Lighting & Scenic Designer Alex Fuller, take great care in ensuring the lighting is perfect for every service. They recently began purchasing a variety of gear from UsedLighting.com to upgrade the lighting inside the facility.
“We had been renting a lot of different types of lights to see what worked best in the worship center,” said Fuller. “Once we narrowed it down to the lights we wanted, we started looking for the best price to purchase them.”
Fuller and his team faced a few challenges from a production standpoint inside their facility, not the least of which were 30 ft. tall, 70 ft. wide windows that span across both sides of Saddleback’s worship center. Needing fixtures that could compete with the bright Southern California sunlight, the team purchased used Martin MAC Vipers and MAC Auras, as well as Chroma-Q Color Force 48 and Color Force 12 LED battens.
